Opinion

It's hard not to feel blessed right now in Whistler. Business is good — strong enough to make most of us forget the woes of last winter — and the faces of those living and visiting here sport nothing but smiles (well, most of the time).

A beloved animal, tagged for tracking by researchers, crosses the invisible boundary between protected and unprotected area and is killed by a hunter who has paid tens of thousands of dollars for the "experience.

Lack of cycling safety Last Sunday morning (July 19) before the trails got too busy, my husband and I, (both seniors), were cycling along the Valley Trail from Alpine Meadows in time for the opening of the farmers' market.

Last Friday, Turkey joined the war against the Islamic State (IS), the terrorist-run entity that now controls eastern Syria and western Iraq.

It's the place where it all started — Ground Zero if you will.

Chasing the memory of lumber-driving shantymen on mountain bikes in Ontario's Haliburton Highlands, a friend and I have been served plenty from the area's history department in our first two days.

On July 15, a state-of-the-art new pipeline near Fort McMurray, Alberta, ruptured, spilling five million litres of bitumen, sand and waste water over 16,000 square metres — one of the largest pipeline oil spills in Canadian history.

On a satellite photo, the quilt of farmland spanning the broad fin of southern Ontario ends abruptly at a line running from Georgian Bay eastward to the Ottawa River.

Leave firefighting decisions to the professionals (In response to a July 16 "letter to the editor," fighting the Boulder Creek fire let me say) the professionals at BC Wildfires use a fire ranking system to prioritize and deploy available resources t

On Whistler streets no one pays much attention to same-sex couples strolling about — whether they are travellers or residents — they are more than welcome here.